[Christ] was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything? |
A book has but one vioce, but it does not instruct everyone alike. |
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. |
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. |
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it |
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. |
At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done |
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all. |
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all. |
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. |
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. |
Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and give no heed to the many whisperings of the world |
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. |
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are. |
Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God |